Cassini spots the irregularly shaped icy moon Janus as it swings around Saturn. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 8 degrees above the ringplane. Janus is 179 kilometers (111 miles) across. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 19, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.6 million kilometers (994,000 miles) from Janus and at a Sun-Janus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 18 degrees. Image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel.

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